tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8105371462621592511.comments2017-09-12T08:48:29.496-04:00Fiat LuxThe Rev. James Richardsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03484680361356703398noreply@blogger.comBlogger788125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8105371462621592511.post-26393175452321629592016-01-03T14:51:01.924-05:002016-01-03T14:51:01.924-05:00Thanks for this :)Thanks for this :)Krishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10422697365784333594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8105371462621592511.post-74509651804798077402015-06-12T22:12:41.468-04:002015-06-12T22:12:41.468-04:00Jim and Lori, Blessings on this new adventure, and...Jim and Lori, Blessings on this new adventure, and may your leave-taking from St. Paul&#39;s be full of grace and good humor, and your move &quot;back home&quot; be uneventful. Jim, will you have the opportunity of an Exit Interview?Nelliesgrampahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08581807576368888176noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8105371462621592511.post-73520475852563988482015-01-28T16:13:37.268-05:002015-01-28T16:13:37.268-05:00This is the best reflection I have read from a chu...This is the best reflection I have read from a churchman concerning alcohol use, alcohol abuse, our culture of alcohol in the Episcopal church, and distracted driving. Efforts to raise awareness on this subject in the diocese and national church have been ignored. Thank you for posting this. Lucia Bakewelllucia bakewellnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8105371462621592511.post-89728048039764186842015-01-09T18:32:43.661-05:002015-01-09T18:32:43.661-05:00There is to many differences between Humans and Ap...There is to many differences between Humans and Apes, for humans to have evolved from them, one major difference is apes and all other animals, do not know that they are naked, humans only are aware of this, and cover themselves with clothing. Another thing that needs to be looked at, is that if humans evolved from apes over millions of years ago,the human race has only seen great advancements in the last 6000 years, what were we doing for all the other millions of years? sitting in a corner somewhere?Sons of Zadokhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09987246021543008695noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8105371462621592511.post-22780397850971179892014-08-13T23:19:02.135-04:002014-08-13T23:19:02.135-04:00I&#39;m a big Jeremy Taylor fan. Taylor didn&#39;...I&#39;m a big Jeremy Taylor fan. Taylor didn&#39;t get invited to make much input into the Prayer Book of his day. Take a look at the &quot;Prayer for a Child Not Yet Baptized&quot;, page 444 in our current American BCP. I love the language of mutual receiving. Welcome back, Jim - great blog entry.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8105371462621592511.post-8423122858771561932014-03-08T13:07:57.130-05:002014-03-08T13:07:57.130-05:00Thank you for this encouraging post, James. It is ...Thank you for this encouraging post, James. It is indeed a blessing to remind ourselves that we are mortal, that we are not in control - no matter what needs it would seem to serve to imagine that we are, and that both these truths are well understood as they sit atop the perfect loveliness of the ground of being which sustains us all - whether we like it or want it.<br /> I did not know until reading your post that &#39;ashes to go&#39; has recently become a &#39;movement&#39;. I do know that Sara Miles of St. Gregory of Nyssa Church began this practice several years ago in the San Francisco Mission neighborhood, and that it has inspired many here to join her. My fear about street corner dirt smudges becoming fashionable on Ash Wednesday is that the Church will once again lock the practice up only to prescribe it in small doses, and only when administered by an approved sacred pharmacist.<br /> For those liberals wringing their hands about this practice&#39;s impact in a pluralistic society, I wish to add that imposing ashes on the forehead of one who comes to us freely is not at all akin bullhorn preacher bullying. Secondly, I wonder if such inane levels of political correctness might have some role in our increasingly empty churches. If we fear speaking our truth publicly, no one will know the blessings of the Way. I am out to convert no one, and I am certain as can be that Sara Miles thinks similarly. I hope to be solely about encountering and acknowledging spiritual need in myself and in others.<br /><br />Again, James, I thank you for sharing with us all the blessings you and those who came to you experienced this past Wednesday. We all yearn for the naked Truth .Will Hockerhttps://www.facebook.com/howillianoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8105371462621592511.post-84349591923219363412014-03-04T21:10:24.874-05:002014-03-04T21:10:24.874-05:00I&#39;m too soon old, too late smart. I recognize...I&#39;m too soon old, too late smart. I recognize all of this except the snipping into shorter pieces at the beginning. So I guess you&#39;ve never had the experience of a flaming 3&#39; want floating off in a bit of breeze. See you tomorrow.Nelliesgrampahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08581807576368888176noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8105371462621592511.post-55461869145005891402014-01-31T21:30:50.245-05:002014-01-31T21:30:50.245-05:00Jim, It&#39;s my understanding (from Ecclesiastica...Jim, It&#39;s my understanding (from Ecclesiastical History 3) that during the General Convention which fell during the Civil War, the Secretary of Convention called the roll of ALL the dioceses, despite the secession from the Union of several of the states. Can we still commemorate Gillette at St. Paul&#39;s on 6 March?Nelliesgrampahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08581807576368888176noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8105371462621592511.post-83558306115160997622013-12-25T15:09:12.738-05:002013-12-25T15:09:12.738-05:00Brian, this is an interesting conversation. You ma...Brian, this is an interesting conversation. You make a lot of leaps that really are not in the Bible, and you are missing a few things by how you are reading what is in the Bible. I think you might greatly benefit by reading a book called &quot;And God Spoke,&quot; by Christopher Bryan, one of the best and wisest biblical scholars of our time. The book isn&#39;t very long -- 149 pages. Give yourself a Christmas present and read it, and then come back here and we can talk more.The Rev. James Richardsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03484680361356703398noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8105371462621592511.post-11535727485760440722013-12-25T13:06:21.177-05:002013-12-25T13:06:21.177-05:00Dear Rev,James Richardson, I agree with you that n...Dear Rev,James Richardson, I agree with you that not every thing that God has done, are is doing is in the Bible. The Bible is a brief account of are history, but I do believe it is God inspired, all of it, like the book of Acts, its dose not end at chapter 28, new chapters are being added. The problem with the world we live in today is that people have stopped believing in the supernatural power of God, take the account of the Tower of Babel, most people don&#39;t see the great supernatural thing God did, he took one race of people, with one common language, and changed them to all the races we have today with many languages, then he God, supernaturally scattered them all over the earth.Acts 17:26 says, from one man he made every nation of men,that they should inhabit the whole earth,and he determined the times set for them and exact places where they should live. Mary Christ-Mass. Brian Pricehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11065044669652489247noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8105371462621592511.post-50975990722942570172013-12-25T08:52:33.144-05:002013-12-25T08:52:33.144-05:00Brian,
Thanks again for posting. Brian, you are no...Brian,<br />Thanks again for posting. Brian, you are now making up things that are not in the Bible to explain how Cain got a wife. You are verging on superstition. You also haven&#39;t dealt with how there are two creation stories in Genesis for humans, the other being how humans were made from mud. <br /><br />The difficulty you are encountering is that the Bible was not written as a science book -- to stretch it into one is to miss the profound truth of the Word, which is that there is One God and One creator of all things. The creation stories were written during the Babylonian exile and were based on the Babylonian creation myths. The Hebrews rewrote them to show that there is only One God. The Adam/Eve story is allegory and fable, and the Bible has many of those (Job and Daniel to name two others). <br /><br />If you insist that the Bible is science, then you will also need to deal with the Hebrew idea that the world is flat with a dome on top, or the Pauline cosmology that the world is a sphere surrounded by rings of Heaven. You really don&#39;t have to torture the text unless you are really just simply anti-science, which is sad, because science can reveal to us the amazing splendor and infinity of God&#39;s Creation. <br /><br />Brian, the earth was formed about 2 billion years ago, there really were dinosaurs about 100 million years ago, the human branch of primates about 1 million years ago, an ice age about 10,000 years ago. Our DNA is very close to chimps. That is not a threat to my faith in Jesus Christ and it shouldn&#39;t be for you either. Have a blessed Christmas!<br /><br /><br />There is no need for you to be sarcastic.The Rev. James Richardsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03484680361356703398noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8105371462621592511.post-89575004549095454762013-12-24T23:01:49.928-05:002013-12-24T23:01:49.928-05:00Dear Rev.James Richardson, I would also like to ad...Dear Rev.James Richardson, I would also like to add about Cain and his wife, God could have did the same with Cain as he did with Adam, and made him a wife from one of his ribs, and also with Seth as well.Most people are quick to say that God condoned incest with Cain, and one of his sisters, but even though there was cases of incest in the Bible it was frowned upon and caused disastrous consequences, like when Lots two daughters got there father drunk and slept with him, both becoming pregnant, there was no punishment, but there sons descendants became the Moabites, and the Ammonites, which were bitter enemies to Abrahams descendants. Brian Pricehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11065044669652489247noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8105371462621592511.post-2534941119174576032013-12-24T20:55:54.300-05:002013-12-24T20:55:54.300-05:00Hi to you Rev.James Richardson,man of God,I was wo...Hi to you Rev.James Richardson,man of God,I was wondering what Bible you were referring to, mine says in Genesis 2:21-22 that the Lord God caused the man, Adam to fall into a deep sleep; and while he was sleeping,he took one of the mans ribs, and closed up the place with flesh.Then the Lord God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man,and he brought her to the man.Eve, when brought back to Adam by God, was a full grown woman with the appearance of age.If God works through evolution, then why couldn&#39;t a doctor remove any mans rib today, and make it into a woman like God did? Brian Pricehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11065044669652489247noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8105371462621592511.post-29041454841050651102013-12-24T09:40:17.403-05:002013-12-24T09:40:17.403-05:00Hi Brian,
Thanks for your comment. However, the Bi...Hi Brian,<br />Thanks for your comment. However, the Bible doesn&#39;t say anything close to your interpretation, and you really don&#39;t need to torture the truth of the Bible to get there. God&#39;s miracle of life is worked through evolution -- part of God&#39;s tool chest. Please read the original post. By the way, why would you think the &quot;Seven Days&quot; of Creation would have 24 hour days (limited to the earth&#39;s rotation when the earth does not yet exist). May you have a blessed Christmas and bask in the splendor and awesomeness of God&#39;s holy creation.<br />The Rev. James Richardsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03484680361356703398noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8105371462621592511.post-75833842769312473042013-12-23T20:51:25.774-05:002013-12-23T20:51:25.774-05:00The answer to this question is simple, and found i...The answer to this question is simple, and found in the bible. The Earth and all creation was created with the appearance of age, like Adam and Eve, who were made in a full grown state, or size, they appeared to be older then what they were, so was the animals, the trees and plants and all the earth. One of the first miracles Jesus preformed, was to turn water into wine at a wedding, wine gets its flavor over time by aging,but Jesus made it instantaneous with the appearance of age, we have learned to do this with diamonds, and crystals etc…Brian Pricehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11065044669652489247noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8105371462621592511.post-91570492669940331242013-12-22T01:52:18.572-05:002013-12-22T01:52:18.572-05:00Hi Jim,
This is the first time I&#39;ve visited yo...Hi Jim,<br />This is the first time I&#39;ve visited your webpage. What a timely message. I needed it. Badly. I know God loves us unconditionally. But this time of year it&#39;s easy to miss loved ones. Amoung life&#39;s difficulties it&#39;s nice to be reminded that God is for us. To that I say Amen and Amen.<br />Laura JAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8105371462621592511.post-18228194701266244102013-10-25T08:25:08.937-04:002013-10-25T08:25:08.937-04:00The author of this lovely benediction (except for ...The author of this lovely benediction (except for scripture) is the late Rev. William Sloane Coffin.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8105371462621592511.post-80843239798701615482013-09-27T21:28:33.624-04:002013-09-27T21:28:33.624-04:00Hello!
I have started an Episcopalian Bloggers li...Hello!<br /> I have started an Episcopalian Bloggers linkup at my blog, TheJonesesBlog.com, and wondered if you were interested in joining. The Episcopalian Bloggers linkup&#39;s purpose is to promote the diversity of Episcopalians by advertising your church membership through a blog badge and blogroll. Having a collection of blogging Episcopalians in one place would be amazing for anyone interested in knowing exactly who Episcopalians are. (Which is to say, they are a diverse group of people.)<br /><br /> To join the linkup, simple visit the Episcopalian Bloggers page on my blog @ http://www.thejonesesblog.com/2013/09/episcopalian-bloggers.html, retrieve the badge code, and add your blog&#39;s information to the linkup. If you have any questions or concern, please contact me. I would love to have you join us!<br /><br /> Lisa JonesLisa Joneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06958703024869992596noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8105371462621592511.post-66706741090463229792013-08-22T21:44:03.382-04:002013-08-22T21:44:03.382-04:00Good to have you sharing your thoughts again, Jim....Good to have you sharing your thoughts again, Jim.Nelliesgrampahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08581807576368888176noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8105371462621592511.post-31833867123738138032013-08-22T21:43:17.987-04:002013-08-22T21:43:17.987-04:00Good to have your thoughts back, Jim.Good to have your thoughts back, Jim.Nelliesgrampahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08581807576368888176noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8105371462621592511.post-76765445510488780512013-08-22T21:42:43.775-04:002013-08-22T21:42:43.775-04:00Welcome back, Jim.Welcome back, Jim.Nelliesgrampahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08581807576368888176noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8105371462621592511.post-62226538311519538182013-07-19T01:56:26.772-04:002013-07-19T01:56:26.772-04:00This is cool!This is cool!Verlahttp://thesteammop.infonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8105371462621592511.post-44354137565186100702013-05-07T19:41:19.424-04:002013-05-07T19:41:19.424-04:00I was in Sacramento County Jail with Nadine for al...I was in Sacramento County Jail with Nadine for almost 5 months during her trial. She seemed like an ok person but the thing that really made me cringe was the fact that she didn&#39;t seem like any of this bothered her. She smiled alot and never once showed any signs of remorse. she talked about the trial with everyone. My heart goes out to her victim and her baby. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8105371462621592511.post-1900977835566860452013-03-28T14:28:57.087-04:002013-03-28T14:28:57.087-04:00I think this is a sound argument. Thank you for s...I think this is a sound argument. Thank you for sharing it, especially in such a clear and respectful way.Janice Deanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10695322937457654338noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8105371462621592511.post-54920223016562608132013-03-19T21:46:28.921-04:002013-03-19T21:46:28.921-04:00Post Script: As an American woman in priestly mini...Post Script: As an American woman in priestly ministry, I&#39;m joining our delegation in spirit, cheering this good man and praying for his wisdom and the Light of Christ to keep shining as brightly through the integrity and warmth of his loving humanity as it has in his decades of service to others, and this week, for all the world to experience. My spirit won&#39;t take up much room. Your challenge to the powers at Lambeth Palace feels like an invitation to me, to all of us, really, to claim our place in the Body of Christ more fully. Thank you so much, Jim!Alla Renée Bozarthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07163511991184059081noreply@blogger.com